To abstract the way a trillion dollar company operates in 2 paragraph necessitates simplification. Point still stands: you don’t attribute revenue to just iOS or just iPhone hardware or just marketing team.
I think you know exactly what I mean. If you’re just trying to engage in an argument at the margin, you are not going to get one.
> you don’t attribute revenue to just iOS or just iPhone hardware or just marketing team.
No, instead you have some finance team model the revenue split, to simulate the P&L you would have otherwise (and then the execs fight over the model, whether it's fair to give iOS any money for Apple Music when they support Windows and Android, etc.). This is a bog standard approach that many SV firms take. Even non-SV firms have to deal with this sort of thing when the IT department reports to the CFO.
Yes, Alphabet has 'side bets' but there are still _many_ products and services under the Google umbrella, and has even rolled some into their own. As best I can tell, this was a tool to quarantine specific executives from infecting the rest of Google -- when your acquisitions are holding quarterly all hands with an opener of 'Fuck being Googley' then you have a problem to solve.
It's hard to reconcile the 'ignorance is strength' argument you've offered here -- if employees aren't allowed to know what anyone else is doing, or even what the org chart looks like, then you can't have the collaboration it would take to make things work together well. And you would expect to end up with a lot of duplicated efforts, since middle managers are kept in the dark about one another's work.
I’m not sure where you get the idea apple employees don’t know the org chart. Everyone has “Apple Directory” which is recursively click-to-show everyone and their boss and their reports, as well as contact info and even where they sit.
It also shows the internal mailing lists, how to get yourself on it (if it’s not self-add) etc. Then you can find the disclosures you might need for black/ultra-black projects...
It’s actually relatively simple to get access to anything you need, if you have the need and aren’t just curious.
Disinfo. Apple’s internal systems, security policies, and the culture of secrecy is far less blasé than you describe. Discussion of internal tools should be avoided on public forums.
